Some plants lose their leaves and go dormant during hot, dry summers. What happens when these plants' life processes during dormancy? How does this help the plants survive?

Dormancy is when a plant just stop growing and development. that doesn't mean they stop completely, while other part of plants are stopped developing, the root continue to develop and thrive to get more nutrients.  

Explanation:

1. the energy lost to disorder metabolism     -entropy

2. related to or possessing motion potential     -kinetic

3. all of the chemical reactions in an organism required for maintenance of the processes of life entropy     -metabolism

4. possible; ability to go into action or perform work kinetic     -potential

5. the study of energy and its transformations thermodynamics     -thermodynamics